Hi, everyone, I’m in a creative lull at the moment, so I decided to post some more often Confused Words. Patience, Patients Patience: this word is used when talking about the ability of someone to put up with the incompetence of… Read More ›
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Revising Your Work
Revising is another essential part of the writing process, and although some people like to use editing as an interchangeable term for both editing and revising, it is a separate thing altogether. Personally, I prefer to revise my work after… Read More ›
Editing Your Work – The Basics
Editing can be a tricky process, especially when editing your own work. The problem is that you’ve spent an awful lot of time on this project and you’ve grown attached to every single sentence and every single word. It is your… Read More ›
Additional Writing Tips
In taking a break from the ever-increasing amount of research I need for my current project, I decided to research some more writing tips. This way I can shift focus and give my brain a little break while still staying in… Read More ›
Further Confused Words
Hi, everyone! I’m back with another post about words that may sound similar but can mean entirely different things. They are: Horde, Hoard Horde: this word is used when you want to describe a large group of people. For example,… Read More ›
Working with Scrivener
Scrivener, for those who don’t know, is a fantastic bit of software that helps writers to write. It is designed, as far as I am able to tell, for ease of use and for all types of writers from novelists… Read More ›
Yet More Writing Tips
I’ve not written a post about ‘Writing Tips‘ in a little while so I thought I’d get my researching cap on and write another one. The truth is that creating any sort of post for this blog gives me a… Read More ›
Scenes and Sequels???
I had always thought that a scene was a scene; that you write what happens, who is involved and how they feel. Pretty standard stuff really. But then I read about sequels, and my mind went boom! For years I… Read More ›
The Hero’s Journey
The Hero’s journey is a widespread form of story structure derived from mythologist Joseph Campell’ s ‘Monomyth’ from his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which was originally published in 1949 There are twelve steps, and as you go… Read More ›
Writing Flash Fiction
For those who don’t know, Flash fiction or the short-short story as it is also known, is a type of fiction writing that relies on brevity and can be read – or written I suppose – in a flash. Surprisingly, at least… Read More ›
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